University of Arizona Psychiatry Department

08/19/2026

Chief Resident Spotlight: Krithi Narimetla, MD
PGY-1 Liaison

🎓 Medical School: Texas Christian University Anne Burnett Marion School of Medicine

💙 What she loves most about our program: “The people that make me look forward to coming in to work each day. I am so grateful for the staff, my co-resident friends (psych & non-psych!), and my mentors for all the support and encouragement, and for challenging me to be a better physician each day. I’ve been lucky to find friends in the most unexpected places, and I hope to keep them for a long time.”

07/31/2026

to March when our (then) PGY4 Chief Resident Jody Platto, MD, spoke at the Arizona Capitol for the Workforce Wellbeing Day of Awareness event. She educated attendees, including health leaders and Arizona legislators, on issues that uniquely impact the wellbeing of trainees and early career health professionals.

She is pictured here (on the left) with Jasleen Chhatwal, MD, associate clinical professor of psychiatry.

07/30/2026

Pregnancy raises difficult questions about psychiatric medications: Should treatment be continued, changed or stopped?

The best path forward begins with a conversation about the patient’s treatment history, medication effectiveness, and the risks of both an untreated illness and prenatal medication exposure.

Arizona clinicians do not have to navigate these complex decisions alone. Call our Arizona Perinatal Psychiatry Access Line at 888-290-1336 for a free consultation with a perinatal psychiatrist.

Read APAL's post about this topic, by Co-Director Dr. Emerick, at:
https://apal.arizona.edu/my-patient-pregnant-do-we-stop-everything-or-change-nothing

07/29/2026

Save the date for our next Addiction Medicine Grand Rounds with NYU Langone Health Professor of Population Health Joseph J. Palamar, PhD, MPH.

Details & Zoom link at https://medicine.arizona.edu/events/addiction-medicine-grand-rounds-changing-landscape-fentanyl-adulterants-united-states.

07/28/2026

Join us in welcoming our new PGY-2 resident, M. Arianna Price, MD, who joins us from the UT Southwestern Psychiatry Residency Program! 🎉

Dr. Price is from Tucson and is excited to return to the Old Pueblo. We are thrilled to have her in our residency program!

07/24/2026

to April when our Vice Chair of Education Jason Curry, DO, received the well-deserved Howard E. Wulsin Excellence in Education Award from the Arizona Psychiatric Society.

In his role of vice chair of education and as the residency program director, Dr. Curry exemplifies all of what the award is bestowed for and more. We appreciate you so much Dr. Curry!

07/23/2026

We are excited to share that J. Hunter Howie, PhD, who earned his doctorate from the University of Kansas and completed his internship in our Doctoral Clinical Psychology Program, is continuing his work with us as a postdoctoral fellow in our Early Psychosis Intervention Center!

EPICenter is a community mental health program offering specialized treatment for persons early in the course of a psychotic illness.

Learn more about EPICenter and check out the videos on early psychosis on its YouTube playlist at https://shorturl.at/8H5hL.

07/22/2026

When should a clinician consider medication for a pediatric patient with depression?

In an Arizona Pediatric Psychiatry Access Line Key Read by Clinical Director Jacquelin Esque, MD, she outlines four questions to guide decision-making.

Check it out at https://apal.arizona.edu/should-i-start-psychiatric-medication-my-pediatric-patient-depression.

APAL offers free case consultations for pediatric providers! Call 888-290-1336 to discuss your patient’s needs and to collaborate with one of our psychiatrists on an individualized treatment plan.

07/21/2026

Our Professor and Sleep & Health Research Program Director Dr. Michael Grandner is interviewed in this Newsweek article about the health effects that will be caused by the Congressional bill that aims to make daylight saving time permanent in the United States.

Daylight saving time becoming permanent could have negative consequences for vaccines and increase cancer cases, experts say.